allae test

Any body actually heard these yet. Do they offer more bass the the Credo? I'm looking for something tight, powerful and low. Credos just don't cut it for me!

...Bristol, 2001. "Tight, powerful & low" does a good job of describing some of what they were doing (with CDSII, 52/SC, 135s) -- damn nice. Tonally very similar to what our little Roksans do, but more dynamic, and "bigger", yet more agile. About right for the extra 1500UKP, really, and better value than lots of others. Neat Vito is probably strongest competition. On the basis of what I heard, good up against a wall, and I for one could easily live with them.

Best;

Mark

(an imperfect
forum environment is
better than none)

Sound like just the ticket! All I need now is to find a decent dealer who has some stock... not an easy task over here in Geneva...

Juan,
is going to be about £3500-£4500 I reckon. I think Naim has tried to keep the qualities of the SBL but in an easier to set up package. This is not a ctitisism of the Allae, I've heard them, but they aint no SBL IMO they are quite different (good bass though!)

Martin

....for the missunderstanding

Point taken

Martin

Pity. I would have liked to listen to the Allaes, but I'm fed up with waiting for them (as is the local dealer, I suspect).
So I picked up some Neat Vito's (ooooh me back!) and I've been giving them a lengthy trial at home.
Now I've been browsing around on and off for some replacement speakers for ages, and I've home dem'd a few likely candidates - SBL's, ES22's, Dynaudio 1.8 Mk2's, but none really worked for me, which left me (and the dealer) feeling rather pessimistic about finding something I'd like.
However, these Vito's are very serious floorstanders with ribbon tweeters and iso-baric bass loading - a bit like Petites plus Gravitas sub-bass'es all integrated in one unit. Man, they do all the right things for me - I even enjoyed listening to some classical stuff. My wallet is getting decidedely nervous, and so is my back!
Tonytronic.